* Evander Holyfield's return to the ring against Francois Botha has been postponed to give the fighters more time to prepare. It will be held Feb. 20 in Uganda instead of the originally scheduled Jan. 16 date.
Golf
* Electronic Arts Inc. is standing behind
Tiger Woods and plans to go ahead with the release this month of an online game featuring the embattled golf superstar. AT&T Inc. and Accenture have dropped their sponsorships of Woods, who is taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.
* Arnold Palmer's grandson, 22-year-old Sam Saunders, has received a sponsor's exemption to play in the PGA Tour's Bob Hope Classic, Jan. 18-24 in La Quinta, Calif.
Philly File
* The MLS Cup will remain a neutral-site championship. Major League Soccer commissioner
Don Garber said the league, which now includes the expansion Philadelphia Union, discussed changing the format to reward the higher-seeded team with the home field. The league plans to announce the site for the 2010 MLS Cup in a few months.
Sport Stops
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Justine Henin beat second-seeded
Nadia Petrova, 7-5, 7-5, in the first round of the Brisbane (Australia) International, the former No. 1's first official tour match since announcing her comeback in September.
* American snowboarder Kevin Pearce remains in critical but stable condition at a Utah hospital with a brain injury he sustained in a fall while training. A family spokeswoman said his condition hadn't changed since doctors sedated him over the weekend to monitor the pressure on his brain.
* Eric Tillman, general manager of the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, pleaded guilty to sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl.
